The far distant fates of the Universe offer a number of possibilities, but if dark energy is truly a constant, as the data indicates, it will continue to follow the red curve, leading to the long-term ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

The long-standing problem of the cosmological constant, described both as “the worst prediction in the history of physics” and by Einstein as his “biggest blunder”, is being tackled with renewed ...

A team of cosmologists in China has introduced a mathematical framework that investigates two of the deepest mysteries in ...

According to physics, the universe and everything in it can be explained by just a handful of equations. They’re difficult equations, all right, but their simplest feature is also the most mysterious ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows the galaxy cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508, which contains a mass of almost 500 trillion suns. According to a new ...

Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two recent articles highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology. Before becoming widely ...

Theoretical physicists Joao Magueijo and Lee Smolin have proposed that time is not merely a backdrop against which the universe unfolds but a quantum variable that directly shapes cosmic expansion.